biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1592–1677)
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| biography:
| Colonist and religious leader, born in Gorton, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He emigrated to Massachusetts Colony (1637) where, having denied the doctrine of the Trinity and the existence of heaven and hell, he was tried for heresy and banished (1638). He fell foul of other authorities before returning to London in 1644, where he was given a letter of safe conduct by John Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, to settle in Rhode Island (1648). He gave the township Shawomet a new name, Warwick, and lived there peacefully with a few faithful Gortonite adherents. |
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